LONDON: GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.
_These Short Books are addressed to the general public with a view both to stirring and satisfying an interest in literature and its great topics in the minds of those who have to run as they read. An immense class is growing up, and must every year increase, whose education will have made them alive to the importance of the masters of our literature, and capable of intelligent curiosity as to their performances. The Series is intended to give the means of nourishing this curiosity, to an extent that shall be copious enough to be profitable for knowledge and life, and yet be brief enough to serve those whose leisure is scanty._
_SPENSER_ _The Dean of St. Paul's._ [_Ready._ _HUME_ _Professor Huxley._ [_Ready._ _BUNYAN_ _James Anthony Froude._ _JOHNSON_ _Leslie Stephen._ [_Ready._ _GOLDSMITH_ _William Black._ [_Ready._ _MILTON_ _Mark Pattison._ _COWPER_ _Goldwin Smith._ _SWIFT_ _John Morley._ _BURNS_ _Principal Shairp._ [_Ready._ _SCOTT_ _Richard H. Hutton._ [_Ready._ _SHELLEY_ _J. A. Symonds._ [_Ready._ _GIBBON_ _J. C. Morison._ [_Ready._ _BYRON_ _Professor Nichol._ _DEFOE_ _W. Minto._ [_Ready._ _BURKE_ _John Morley._ [_In the Press._ _HAWTHORNE_ _Henry James._ _CHAUCER_ _A. W. Ward._ _THACKERAY_ _Anthony Trollope._ [_Ready._ _ADAM SMITH_ _Leonard H. Courtney, M.P._ _BENTLEY_ _Professor R. C. Jebb._ _LANDOR_ _Professor Sidney Calvin._ _POPE_ _Leslie Stephen._ _WORDSWORTH_ _F. W. H. Myers._ _SOUTHEY_ _Prof. E. Dowden._
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